The Longer Read
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January 2026
The Unraveling Order
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The “unified global order” never rested on unity. It rested on a set of payment rails, security guarantees, maritime chokepoints, legal regimes, and institutional norms that made Western preferences feel like neutral reality. For a while, that architecture produced a kind of planetary smoothness. Trade expanded, debt structured development, and the Glob…